After enjoying the recent offering from As I Lay Dying (check out our review of Awakened here), I've been finding myself in more of a metalcore mood more than usual this week. Arguably a more accessible mix of melodic choruses, crushing breakdowns and offbeat riffs, the genre still takes some hits from the old-schoolers for its frequent reliance on clean choruses and predictable breakdowns, but for my money there are still a few bands out there who totally nail the genre with a balance of emotional content (not to be confused with emo whining, which gets on my nerves) and hardcore brutality. There's a more experimental edge to Pennsylvania-based quintet This or the Apocalypse that summons the same madness as acts like Every Time I Die and Dillinger Escape Plan, with an added dose of technical wizardry. They've channeled an even more aggressive vibe for their third studio album Dead Years,...
- 9/29/2012
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
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